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The Act was split from the Sixth National Government's Gangs Legislation Bill on 8 August 2024, [1] with the companion Gangs Act 2024 banning gang insignia and creating new anti-gang dispersal and non-consorting orders. [3] The two laws passed their third reading on 19 September 2024. [4]
The Gangs Act 2024 is an omnibus bill that seeks to reduce the harmful behaviours caused by criminal gangs and to disincentivise gang membership. It makes displaying gang patches a criminal offence, creates new dispersal powers to stop gang members for gathering in a public area for seven days and create a new non-consorting order which bans specified gang offenders from consorting with each ...
In 2007, legislators changed the law, making it so those convicted of felonies with a gang enhancement, who had previously faced a term of up to two years, would face a minimum of two years.
The 136 gang members (73%) who were not included in the second injunction were not included for several reasons: 4 were murder victims, 80 were in prison for committing new offenses, and 52 appeared to be non-active and had no recent contacts with law enforcement in their gang's territory. Most had no contacts anywhere in San Diego County.
Hochman also eliminated restrictions on the use of sentencing enhancements that can add years to prison terms for gang and gun crimes and decreed that prosecutors can again join victims at parole ...
Officials raised the salaries for city-sanctioned gang interventionists to $60,000 a year, but some police officers remain leery of working too closely with outreach workers who still have one ...
The Berks County Gang Task Force has existed for about 13 years ... Feb. 23—Operation Night Light is back on. Responding to an increase in gun violence by young offenders, some with ties to ...
Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act of 2005 H.R. 1279: March 14, 2005 Randy Forbes (R-VA) 15 Passed House (279-144) [1] 110th Congress: Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act of 2007 H.R. 880: February 7, 2007 Randy Forbes (R-VA) 18 Died in committee 111th Congress: Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act of 2009 H.R. 2857 ...